Example sentences of "[v-ing] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parent : ‘ He does n't play with them for more than 5 minutes before wanting to throw them at the wall . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , not daring to look them in the face . |
| 3 | this freedom we talk about is worthy of their support because it is for them we fight ; it is for the establishment of a social system that is going to provide them with the opportunity and the means to develop all that is best in them and the Nation . |
| 4 | Gas and electricity accounts departments will know those customers whose financial difficulties are going to lead them to a cessation of supply . |
| 5 | In Europe police organisation is hierarchical , centralised and supervised by the government , all of which may account for the tendency to rely on police investigations while , at the same time , declining to constrain them by the kind of normative rules we find in Anglo-American law . |
| 6 | Well , if that 's going to help them with the money , then they wo n't charge for extra televisions . |
| 7 | They say they are going to ship them with every System seven , you get this . |
| 8 | Erm right just t message on secretaries clubs , going to put them on a back burner for a while then in terms of actually forming a club as such |
| 9 | and I 've mounted them on green germ , but I 'm going to put them on a table , and then hang the germs from the ceiling or something , round , cos I have n't got a board for that . |
| 10 | Here they are , love — I was just going to put them under the pillow . ’ |
| 11 | Consequently , they 're always coming in a bit behind the boys because the boys have been playing for a bit longer , and I think it 's very important that if girls are being offered the opportunity that the opportunity is good for them , and that it 's not going to put them off the game of football because they 're always in the position where the boys consider themselves a bit better . |
| 12 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 13 | Was he attempting to force them to a stoppage in the hopes of taking over their lease ? |
| 14 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 15 | And there they would greet the men that they knew , and collect what news they could , and visit the cess-pits more often than they would like to admit , while turning all the time to look up here , where the King their leader was deciding what was going to save them from the army of Northumbria . |
| 16 | Manager Charlton will monitor the progress and fitness of his three injured stars before deciding to add them to the panel at a later date . |
| 17 | ‘ If you 're going to join them on the veranda , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just made coffee . |
| 18 | The clarity and definition of rich pictures can be aided by using computer graphics ; however , attempting to construct them on a computer from the outset can impose artificial constraints , and the original pictures should always be drawn freehand . |
| 19 | ‘ Are you really going to tell them about the dream ? ’ |
| 20 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 21 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 22 | Flaps of skin grew out of either side of the lower part of the body , helping to guide them through the water . |
| 23 | Not wishing to drop them in a crater , he obligingly pointed them towards the road to Belleek . |
| 24 | Amnesty International is working throughout 1992 to raise awareness about human rights violations against the indigenous peoples of the Americas and is striving to bring them to an end . |
| 25 | I 'm having to swim them off the steamer and tow them in a dinghy to get our put the slings on them before we left the beach and just pushed them into the water and towed them off and hook the hook the into the sling and up them to give them a good wash before they went to Kirkwall . |
| 26 | And it stops you having to hit them with a brick . |
| 27 | Also , by failing to protect them from the sun , you may cause problems for your kids later . |
| 28 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 29 | If you have lost your glasses , it may be that you upset your friends by failing to recognize them in the street . |
| 30 | Northampton captain Lamb was yesterday banned for two matches by his club and fined heavily — not for his comments , but for failing to clear them with the county . |